Asexual reproduction
Mitosis
Types of asexual reproduction
Vocabulary
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100
What is the process of forming a new individual from how many parents?
One Parent
100

What makes up DNA?

What is a phosphate head, deoxyribose sugar, and nitrogen bases.

100

Growing a new plant from a piece of a plant is a type of asexual reproduction termed?

What is vegetative propagation. 

100
Where are the chromosomes held in the cell?
Nucleus
100

How many pairs of chromosomes are in humans?

What is 23 pairs.

200
How are the offspring similar to the parent in asexual reproduction?
Identical
200
Which phase of the cell cycle takes the longest?
Interphase
200

When a prokaryotic parent cell splits into two identical daughter cells.

What is binary fission.

200

What is the term that describes when the cytoplasm splits or divides during both mitosis and meiosis?

What is cytokinesis.

200
Where is one place that our cells never stop growing?
Hair and Nail
300
What is the name of one cell that doesn't have a nucleus?
What is a prokaryote?
300
Which 4 phases of the cell cycle are mitosis?
Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase
300

What is a type asexual reproduction in which a small bump protrudes from a parent cell, enlarges, matures, and detaches. 

What is budding.

300

What is the term that describes when an organism can regrown a WHOLE new organism from just one part?

 What is fragmentation.

300
What is an advantage to asexual reproduction?
Doesn't need a mate.
400
What is the name of one or more cell that have a nucleus?
What is a eukaryote?
400

Briefly explain what takes place during Interphase.

The cell is growing, maturing, copying it's DNA, and preparing for division.

400

What type of cell division occurs with eukaryotic cells?

What is mitosis. 

400

These are responsible for pulling the sister chromatids apart and moving them to opposite sides of the cell during mitosis. 

What is spindle fibers.

400

What is the scientific name for body cells?

What is somatic cells.

500
What are types of asexual reproduction?
Fission, mitotic cell division, budding, regeneration, vegetative reproduction, cloning
500

During which phase do the sister chromatids line in the middle of the cell in a single file line?

What is metaphase.

500

What are the types of asexual reproduction and tell one organism that performs each type.

Budding; yeast, Binerian fission; Bacteria, Vegetative reproduction; potato.

500

What is the difference between a chromatid and a chromosome?

Chromatid = 1 strand, Chromosome = 2 strands

500

During what stage of protein synthesis does DNA become RNA?

What is transcription.